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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Justus Ranvier <justus@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Compatibility requirements for hard or soft forks
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 00:33:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201511020033.19291.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5636ACFF.5040908@openbitcoinprivacyproject.org>

On Monday, November 02, 2015 12:23:27 AM Justus Ranvier via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> It's a lot easier to justify the position: "nobody has the right to
> change the meaning of someone else's outputs", than it is to justify,
> "some small group of people gets to decide what's standard and what
> isn't, and if you choose to use the network in a valid but nonstandard
> way, that group of people might choose to deny you access to your money
> in the future"

The reality is presently "some small group of people gets to decide how and if 
you can access your money"... and it's getting worse.

> In other words, how close to the shores of "administrators of a virtual
> currency" do Bitcoin developers want to sail?

Bitcoin developers don't make this decision, miners do.

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-02  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-28 14:06 [bitcoin-dev] Compatibility requirements for hard or soft forks Gavin Andresen
2015-10-31  3:43 ` Rusty Russell
2015-11-01 14:36   ` Justus Ranvier
2015-11-01 17:28 ` jl2012
2015-11-01 23:46   ` Tier Nolan
2015-11-02  0:23     ` Justus Ranvier
2015-11-02  0:33       ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2015-11-02  1:30       ` Tier Nolan
2015-11-02  4:15         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-11-02  6:12         ` Justus Ranvier
2015-11-02 20:33     ` Gavin Andresen
2015-11-02 22:12       ` Justus Ranvier
2015-11-03  5:32       ` jl2012

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